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Annual Conference on European Tort Law

Concluding Conference on ‘The Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective' Project

The European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) is pleased to report the success of the above Conference which took place on 20 October 2014 in Graz. It focused on a selection of topics from Prof iR Dr DDr hc Helmut Koziol’s forthcoming publication: H Koziol (ed), Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective. The study expands upon the groundwork laid in Koziol’s Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective (2012), ISBN 9783902638854 (also available as a free download at www.jan-sramek-verlag.at). Koziol is proud to have secured the participation of Jean-Sébastien Borghetti (France); Bjarte Askeland (Scandinavia); Katarzyna Ludwichowska-Redo (Poland); Attila Menyhárd (Hungary); Vanessa Wilcox, who delivered Ken Oliphant’s response (England and the Commonwealth); Michael Green (USA) and Fumihiro Nagano (Japan) at the Conference, as well as funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In addition, Koziol would like to record his gratitude to The Centre of European Private Law (CEPL) and its staff for their assistance in organising the conference.

Pictures of the conference are available here.

The project (P 23519-G16) and Conference were made possible by a generous grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).